Trump lays out blueprint for mass repression, beginning with immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump claimed that imposing huge new imposts on imports from Mexico, Canada and China would be lucrative.
58% : Trump has already signaled this as his top priority through the very composition of his cabinet, with more than a dozen billionaires nominated for top positions and controlling every important post relating to economic policy and taxes.
54% : Trump has named only one budget priority for his first 100 days -- renewing the tax cuts for the wealthy he pushed through in 2017, which are set to expire next year.
44% : The prostration before Trump of all sections of the ruling class, including the Democratic Party and the corporate media, only confirms that it is the working class that must take up the struggle to defend democratic rights and oppose the turn by American capitalism to dictatorship and world war.
42% : Asked about the estimated 4 million families with mixed immigration status, Trump said cynically that they could choose, but if the children wanted to stay with their fathers and mothers they would have to leave the country with them.
39% : She tried to extract promises from Trump on critical foreign policy issues, including that the US would remain a member of NATO, and to voice the concerns of the upper-middle class, pro-Democratic Party social layer of which she is part.
39% : The biggest lie in the entire interview was Trump's declaration that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are off the table in terms of budget-cutting, and that there would be no reduction in benefit levels or tightening of eligibility requirements, such as raising the age of retirement.
37% : In response to a direct question about whether he would have all 11 million undocumented migrants (the current estimated total) deported during his four-year term, Trump responded, "Well, I think you have to do it, and it's a hard -- it's a very tough thing to do."
36% : While such an executive order would violate the US Constitution, Trump declared, "Well, we're going to have to get it changed.
36% : Thus she asked Trump directly about his promise not to seek the outlawing of mail-order abortion pills, and seemed satisfied with his agreement to maintain that pledge.
35% : Trump was speaking about the scale of the police-military mobilization required, not about the suffering of millions of workers without legal immigration status.
35% : Asked if he wanted Patel to launch investigations of these officials, Trump said, "No.
34% : "At the same time, Trump said he would pardon the convicted January 6 rioters on the day he takes the oath of office, January 20, 2025.
30% : The actual substance of what Trump said, however, belies both the fawning tone of Welker's questions and the deliberately low-key manner in which the ex-president spoke.
26% : He added, "If they think that somebody was dishonest or crooked or a corrupt politician, I think he probably has an obligation to do it."While downplaying his past call for appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Biden, Trump reserved his real venom for the members of the House Select Committee that investigated his attempted coup of January 6, 2021.
22% : Trump justified this assault on democracy with reactionary lies about immigrants, falsely asserting that people are "pouring into our border that come from prisons and mental institutions," that 13,000 immigrant murderers were released onto the streets during the Biden administration, that migrant gangs have taken over American cities, and that, as a result, crime is at an all-time high (rather than a historic low, at least in the modern era).
19% : Asked directly if he thought Liz Cheney, the Republican co-chair of the committee, should go to jail, Trump replied that "everyone on the committee" deserved that fate "for what they did.
14% : December 2024Contact usRelated TopicsFind out more about these topics:Trump and the danger of fascism in AmericaImmigrants and refugeesTrump's January 6 coup d'étatUS Politics
13% : Asked about his repeated threats during the campaign to prosecute and jail his political opponents, including leading Democrats like Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as Republican former supporters like Bill Barr and Liz Cheney, Trump hid behind the pretense that such decisions would be made by his nominees to run the Justice Department and the FBI, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.

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